For the Mississippi River, he said, the organization’s goal is to press the federal government to maintain a role in disaster ...

FEMA assists communities during floods and other types of disasters, provides funds for recovery and oversees preparedness ...

After prolonged heavy rainfall upriver, Mississippi River nears flood stage in New Orleans. Corps begins levee checks and ...

More: Latest federal Water Resources Development Act addresses climate extremes and flooding along the Mississippi River More: Vital to wildlife, water quality and flood defense, wetlands are ...

This data is critical for detecting rising water levels and issuing timely flood warnings. I decided to take a closer look at the Mississippi River to see how water levels have been evolving along ...

the new Bayou Chene floodgate was closed for the first time due to high water to protect several parishes from backwater flooding as the Atchafalaya River continues to rise. The Mississippi has ...

A map from the USGS showed that some rivers were 23,000 percent of their normal median level or higher as of Friday morning.

River gauges detected rivers in major flood stage in 19 locations, according to a flood inundation map from ... "The water has got to continue to flow. Obviously, the Mississippi River is very ...

Gabriela Shinskie Maxim van Norden, a University of Southern Mississippi (USM) hydrography adjunct professor was recently ...